Hi there, sorry for the late reply. Regarding your comments on subforums, we really did go back and forth on this, but ultimately felt like we were unlikely to displace slacks and discord groups across the board for “discussion”. We felt like the Forum’s core competency is longform posts and comments on those posts, and the number of features we’d have to build well to displace these other platforms was really large. So for now, we decided to reduce the goals of “subforums” and just focus on topic views that are more coherent than the current wiki.
This doesn’t mean subforums are off the table forever, but we’d like to focus on some other things that we think are higher impact righ tnow.
I’m currently trying to have discussions about AI Safety and the community seems to be split up into an uncountable (to me) amount of slacks-and-stuff. I keep discovering more and more of them. This is a pain point for me, as a user, since I want lots of feedback on what I write. Any chance you have thoughts/advice on this, since you thought about the subforum problem (which seems similar)?
Hi there, sorry for the late reply. Regarding your comments on subforums, we really did go back and forth on this, but ultimately felt like we were unlikely to displace slacks and discord groups across the board for “discussion”. We felt like the Forum’s core competency is longform posts and comments on those posts, and the number of features we’d have to build well to displace these other platforms was really large. So for now, we decided to reduce the goals of “subforums” and just focus on topic views that are more coherent than the current wiki.
This doesn’t mean subforums are off the table forever, but we’d like to focus on some other things that we think are higher impact righ tnow.
Okay,
If you change your mind, I’ll be on board (unless something changes?) and I’d be happy to post the pitch in the EA Software groups specifically
A bit off topic:
I’m currently trying to have discussions about AI Safety and the community seems to be split up into an uncountable (to me) amount of slacks-and-stuff. I keep discovering more and more of them. This is a pain point for me, as a user, since I want lots of feedback on what I write. Any chance you have thoughts/advice on this, since you thought about the subforum problem (which seems similar)?
(“no” is totally valid)